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Srimad Bhagavatam

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V.I.G.Menon
Canto2 The Cosmic Manifestation Chapter 5
The Cause of all Causes

Chapter 5
The Cause of all Causes

SB 2.5.1
Obeisances to you MyLord, the firstborn who created all living beings Please impart to me knowledge that leads to transcendental insights.

SB 2.5.2
What is the form, basis and source of this world so created by you actually ? How is it conserved, and controlled and maintained as such, tell me factually?

SB 2.5.3
Everything is known to you, about this universe in its being, becoming, and begone As Master, you hold it in the grip of your omniscience, like one holds a popcorn.

SB 2.5.4
What is the source of your Omniscience, who protects you and who is above you, the creator ? How do you cause potency of souls issuing in lives of all beings with the elements of matter?

SB 2.5.5
Like a spider weaving its web, you without any help but from Thy Selfs Manifest all these lives , without being controlled, by these created selves

SB 2.5.6
Oh Almighty ! I know not any entity of a name and form superior, inferior or sequel, of a temporary or everlasting nature, owing its existence to a source that is your equal

SB 2.5.7

The severe austerities you perform and the discipline you manifest, Make us wearily think of a higher being that could be the ultimate

SB 2.5.8

Enlighten Oh My Father Omniscient !Lord of all beings ! my intellect , as such on all that I have just enquired please !

SB 2.5.9
. Creator Lord Brahma replied: You are very gentle in your inquiries which goad Me to further into the power of the Absolute God.

SB 2.5.10
You are not wrong in these observations of me and my duties, my son As without knowing the Supreme, it will turn out to be a mere illusion

SB 2.5.11
My creations are derived from the effulgence of the Lord Absolute, Just as the space fire, sun, moon planets and stars that the skies dot

SB 2.5.12
Thus my obeisances to the Lord Krishna whom I meditate on, and by whose Invisible imperceptible grace makes me called the mentor of the Universe

SB 2.5.13
Those deluded by nescience, and thus unabashed ,.use words I and mine By which ,these poor beings fail to grasp the reality from a level so hyperfine.

SB 2.5.14

The five elements interacting with eternal Time ,and the beings disposition belong to Vsudeva , but in truth each of these has no value if seen in isolation

SB 2.5.15
Krishna as Lord Narayana is the cause of the knowledge, the demigods His limbs,

for His sake the worlds exist and all sacrifices are only to please Him, Lord of Lords

SB 2.5.16
All three Yogic paths are only to know Narayana, all austerity , to reach Narayana, All knowledge is only to know Narayana, and all paths men take lead to Narayana

SB 2.5.17
Seer, Lord and controller of all intelligence, certainly by Him, I discover how I was created, and I do create , inspired by Him

SB 2.5.18
From his totally neutral state, a portion takes the qualities of Purity, Passion and Perversion ,which supports worlds maintenance, creation and destruction

SB 2.5.19
He subjects Himself to cause ,effect n doership and then manifests dependencies on matter, knowledge and action

SB 2.5.20
Oh my son Narada, Absolute Lord being Overseer of Overseers including mine, cannot be recognized through the above said lower state of qualities that are trine

SB 2.5.21

Lord Himself as Time ,and controller of interaction with the delusive potency of matter creates varied forms with specific nature , affected by trine-qualities ,later to be dissolved into nescience

SB 2.5.22
After the appearance of the first purusha or the mahat-tattva, principles of material creation, issues, and then time is manifested, and over aeons the three qualities appear as Nature, transforming itself into activities

SB 2.5.23

Of the trine, initially the principle of purity and passion dominate, but later as That of peverseness dominates material Nature, knowledge and activities arise

SB 2.5.24
That perverse ,universal material ego manifested itself into a trine Again under the influence of purity, passion and perverseness

SB 2.5.25
From the perverse darkness that underwent transformation into five elements , first the ether evolved with its subtle form and quality of sound which bridges both the seen and the seer.

SB 2.5.26-29
From ether came the air the qualities of touch,as well as the quality of sound inherited from ether Air also had the pranic force of vitality From air came fire which had form as well as touch n sound as qualities From fire came water having taste ,as well as form ,touch and sound of fires And from water or liquidity came earth having, smell, and all that of waters

SB 2.5.26-30
From the purity principle of the universal ego came the mind universal and the ten demigods guiding sensory-motor acts as the controllers of directions the Dig devats , the air Vyu , the sun Srya ,the waters Varuna , longevity the As'vin-Kumras , fire Agni , the heavens Indra , the deity of transcendence Vishnu in the form of Upendra , the deity of friendship Mitra and the guardian of creation Brahm .

SB 2.5.31
From the passion principle of the universal ego according tenfold transformation took place that gave the living energy the intelligence of all the senses of action , the mouth, the hands, the feet, the genitals, and the anus ,and perception of sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell.

SB 2.5.32
Till these entities as elements, the senses, the mind and the modes of nature remained separate, oh best one of knowledgeable, Nrada, the body beings could not be formed

SB 2.5.33
When all these elements and entities were assembled by the Supreme Lord through force

this universe with its true and illusory, spiritual and material realities found existence.

SB 2.5.34
After aeons under the causal waters, till the jva or the Lord awakened to its own time of living to animate the inanimate

SB 2.5.35
He Himself as the original person the Purusha from within the universal egg appeared to divide Himself into thousands of divisions of legs, arms, eyes, mouths n heads myriad.

SB 2.5.36
The great sages conceive of all the worlds of the universe as the limbs Of virat purusha having seven levels below and seven above the waist

SB 2.5.37
As humanity ,the spiritualists represent the mouth of the Original Person,ruling class constitutes arms, the professionals the thighs and the working class the venerable legs

SB 2.5.38
As universe ,The earthly worlds,Bhrlokas belong to His legs the ethereal worlds Bhuvarlokas to His belly, the heavenly worlds from the heart Svarlokas are situated in His chest while the worlds highest are of saints and sages Maharlokas are of the Great Souls.

SB 2.5.39
Above the chest up to the neck one finds the world of the godly ones the sons of Brahm, Janaloka and higher up in the neck one finds the world of renunciation Tapoloka, of the ascetics The world of truth Satyaloka of the self realized, the enlightened ones is found in capital as head, while Brahmaloka, the world of One Soul, of Lord is eternal.

SB 2.5.40-41
On His waist the is first of the lower worlds, the second on the hips, the third on the knees, the fourth on the shanks, the fifth on His ankles, the sixth on His feet and the seventh dwells on His feet too at the soles

SB 2.5.40-41

These worlds can be simply divided in three with the earthly lower ones situated on the legs, the ethereal, middle worlds in the region of the navel and the heavenly, from the chest upwards one visions the higher worlds

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